[asterisk-users] India Telecom regulations

[Nick Khamis]

How can we get thise license? Who do we have to pay.....

Nick.

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 9:52 AM, khalid touati <khalidtouati at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you Raj,
> I hope it will soon require no license as I heard there is a project to
> change this law, for now I believe I will recommend our office in India to
> go for license (to bridge to PSTN).
> Thanks once more for your help!
>
> 2011/12/19 Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) <raju at linux-delhi.org>
>
>> On Tuesday 20 Dec 2011, khalid touati wrote:
>> > Thank you Raj,
>> > so with VOIP license calls can go beyond our pbx to PSTN (india),
>> > right, if so this what i needed to know to call Indian cellphone
>> > from US (or  other countries)
>>
>> If your objective is to originate calls in the US (using whatever
>> technology), route them over SIP and then terminate them to the PSTN in
>> India, then yes: your Indian presence would need a VoIP licence.
>> Similarly for the reverse: originate a call from Indian PSTN to your
>> local office here and route it using VoIP to any destination (whether
>> within India or abroad).  A licence is required in that case too.
>>
>> In general, interconnection of two different entities by bridging Indian
>> PSTN with any other technology requires a licence.  If you're only doing
>> VoIP-VoIP, or PSTN-PSTN, or bridging an Indian VoIP call to PSTN outside
>> India then it's permitted in principle.  This is why, e.g., Skype is
>> permitted: it doesn't connect to the Indian PSTN at any stage.
>>
>> Once again, IANAL and TINLA.  This is purely from my (mostly informed)
>> understanding of the current laws.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> -- Raj
>> --
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